May this lunar year of the wood dragon reward all your courage with extraordinary treasure.
"Rising stars" | Voyage Dallas
I’m so excited Voyage Dallas featured my story and work in their latest string of interviews with creative entrepreneurs.
Grateful I even got to touch on my artist collective Gonzomechanics, and our mission as well as my own personal focus on connection and the brain in this article.
Wishing everyone a wonderful Mid-Autumn Festival.
Contemporary Art Across Political Divides: Difficult Conversations | Cambridge Scholars Publishing
It's finally out! It was an honor to contribute to Contemporary Arts Across Political Divides: Difficult Conversations.
Special thanks to editors, Tijen Tunali and Alla Myzelev and Cambridge Scholars Publishing for their support in bringing this project to life.
Seeing the paper Malak Yacout and I co-wrote, "Entre Quatro Paredes", included with the writings of these other brilliant minds is such a rush, as is using the soft power of art to open important conversations.
"Entre Quatro Paredes (Between Four Walls)" was written about the performance by the same name Atsuko Mochida, Malak Yacout, Martina Jakobi and I performed in Weimar, Germany in 2017.
You are also warmly invited to the webinar/book launch of Contemporary Arts Across Political Divides: Difficult Conversations, hosted online by Columbia University on September 24, 9 - 10 am New York time (EDT). Register for the webinar online here.
View the publication here.
"Meet Kathryn Gohmert, Artist" | Shoutout DFW
So many thanks to Shoutout DFW for this generous interview about my inspiration, work and practice.
I’m very touched and grateful to have these words on my work from a native Texas publication.
Read the whole article here.
she/her | Ro2 Art, Dallas
The SHE/HER group show opens at ro2 art Dallas this Saturday, 18 March, with the vernissage from 7 - 10 pm (2606 Bataan St). It’s a pleasure having drawings from my isolation series included with work by these talented artists.
Artists included: Allison Belliveau-Proulx, Gillian Bradshaw-Smith, Catherine Cornelius, Kathryn Gohmert, Candace Hicks, Bumin Kim, Hanna Kratsman-Robles, Yuni Lee, Julie Libersat, Yasuyo Maruyama, Jeanne Neal, Hayley Quentin, Cat Rigdon, Kathy Robinson-Hays, Dee Shapiro, Erica Stephens, Laura Lawson, Carroll Swenson-Roberts, Marilyn Waligore, Peggy Wauters, and Lillian Young.
Image: Untitled 41 (Isolation), 2022, Kathryn gohmert / 14.8 x 21 cm / Ink, graphite and oil pastel on paper
interview "unterwegs in weimar" | mdr thüringen
So honored my FUTURA CEREBRA exhibition was a part of MDR Thüringen’s recent exploration of Weimar. It’s so nice to see my work on the walls surrounded by friends and holding a place in the cultural fabric of the place I call home. Love galerie eigenheim’s description too of their journey.
“Zwei Tage Weimar! Ohne die kulturellen „Platzhirsche“ Goethe, Schiller und Bauhaus! Steffi Peltzer-Büssow begegnet Künstlern, die ihr Schicksal in die Hand nahmen und „einfach“ eine eigene Galerie gründeten, das „Eigenheim“. “
Performance + Artist Talk | RO2 Art, Dallas
You are warmly welcome to
my performance Brain Chorus
and artist talk at RO2 Art Dallas
to celebrate the finissage of my
solo show FUTURA CEREBRA
this Saturday, 18 February, 2023.
Performance | Artist Talk
18 February, 2023
1 pm (Dallas) / 20 Uhr (Berlin)
PERFORMANCE:
"Kathryn Gohmert performs Brain Chorus live at RO2 Art in Dallas on the finissage of her solo exhibition FUTURA CEREBRA with EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin."
In person and livestream.
1 pm (Dallas) / 20 Uhr (Berlin)
ARTIST TALK:
Yuni Lee and Kathryn Gohmert discuss in a joint artist talk at RO2 Art in Dallas, the paths their different work takes in exploring the brain/mind."
In person and livestream.
2 pm (Dallas) / 21 Uhr (Berlin)
FINISSAGE:
The FUTURA CEREBRA solo exhibition finishes at EIGENHEIM Weimar with the performance and artist talk livestreamed during the celebration.
18.02.2023 / 1 p.m. (Dallas) / 8 p.m. (Berlin)
BRAINS + MINDS: FUTURA CEREBRA + MINDSCAPES
Kathryn Gohmert & Yuni Lee
Artist Talk & Performance @Ro2 Art Gallery & EIGENHEIM Weimar
The mind and brain come together through two international solo exhibitions: FUTURA CEREBRA (Future Brains) of Kathryn Gohmert at EIGENHEIM in Weimar, Germany and MINDSCAPES of Yuni Lee at RO2 Art in Dallas, Texas. Both series and artists intersect on Feb 18 at an event live streamed at both galleries: Kathryn Gohmert performs Brain Chorus live at RO2 Art (amid the breathtaking MINDSCAPES paintings of Yuni Lee) on the finissage of her solo exhibition in Weimar. Yuni Lee and Kathryn Gohmert then both discuss in a live streamed artist talk, the different paths their work takes in exploring the brain and mind, and the goals, challenges and processes of their separate practices.
BRAIN CHORUS:
The video performance Brain Chorus mimes and explores the human journey, from birth into making connection, migration and then, finally, death. We navigate our lives in near chaos, constructing codes to turn nonsense into sense, finding and losing connection, hoping then aging then dying (before starting over, reborn into something else). The value of life is brought into sharp focus in this piece in appreciating death in its periphery. Original electronic score by Bakläxa. Special thanks to Johannes Heller.
Ro2 Art Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located in Dallas' Tin District, just West of Downtown Dallas, that represents a diverse group of emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary artists. A second location, Ro2 Art Projects, in The Cedars Neighborhood of Dallas, focuses on emerging artists, curator-led exhibitions, and an artist-in-residence. The gallery, founded in 2010 by mother-and-son partners Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, regularly collaborates with organizations such as The MAC and Cedars Union, and is a proud member of CADD - Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas. Ro2 Art has twice been named Dallas Observer's “Best Art Gallery” and was presented with the 25th Annual Obelisk Award for small business by the North Texas Business Council for the Arts. The gallery’s art fair program has included the Dallas Art Fair, Texas Contemporary, and Art Aspen.
EIGENHEIM Weimar was founded as a space for contemporary art and communication in Weimar in 2006. Since 2016, with the support of the city of Weimar, EIGENHEIM Weimar has been at home in the gardener's house of the Weimarhallenpark, directly adjacent to the Bauhaus Museum. In addition to classical solo and group exhibitions, regular concerts and readings, project-related, curated thematic exhibitions are realized with the city of Weimar, the Cultural Foundation of Thuringia, the Bauhaus University Weimar, the Goethe Institute or the Kunstfest Weimar. EIGENHEIM Berlin moved into spacious premises on Linienstraße in Berlin Mitte in 2015. From 2018 to 2022, the gallery was present in Kantstraße in Charlottenburg.With the Berlin branch, the gallery expands its scope for exhibitions of its in-house artists* and the many curated thematic exhibitions with guest artists. The artists represented by EIGENHEIM Berlin work in various fields of the visual arts and convince with a varied portfolio that discusses current social issues and transports contemporary developments in the arts into the exhibition space. Bianka Voigt and Konstantin Bayer are responsible for the gallery.
RO2 Art Gallery:
2606 Bataan St., Dallas, TX, 75212
EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin:
Asbachstr. 1, 99423 Weimar, Germany
livestream link:
http://ro2.us/artisttalk
Happy Year of the Rabbit | 新年快乐!
a year of hope!
may we welcome
the abundance
of this
coming year
with an
inner peace.
Wishing you a prosperous
new lunar year.
You are also welcome to the Year of the Rabbit performance and print release (with bakläxa) on Saturday, 21 January at 7 pm as part my solo exhibition ‘FUTURA CEREBRA’ at EIGENHEIM Weimar. ‘FUTURA CEREBRA’ runs until 18 February, 2023.
My solo exhibition ‘DER ZAHN’ also finishes this week at Galerie HELL Berlin. ‘DER ZAHN’ is up until 19 January, 2023.
futura cerebra | eigenheim weimar (solo)
my solo show ”FUTURA CEREBRA” OPENS THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 7 AT EIGENHEIM WEIMAR with the newest work from my brain series.
vernissage: sATURDAY, january 7, 2023, 19- 22 uhr at asbachstr. 1, weimar.
“The paintings in the exhibition „Futura Cerebra“ are studies of the stimuli through which we experience the world. These stimuli (emotional, cognitive and physical) are the basis for our individual and collective perception and creation of our reality.
Kathryn Gohmert breaks down the interplay of these complex processes into their basic framework, using a representation of these processes in the form of diagrams and charts. Symbols (such as arrows, numbers or characters) develop their own code and context and refer to the interplay of cause and effect. Gohmert depicts the process of decoding these diagrams into these paintings.”
(konstantin bayer, artist/director eigenheim weimar/berlin)
more info on the eigenheim website.
der zahn | galerie HELL Berlin (solo)
”der zahn” solo exhibition opens next week AT GALERIE HELL BERLIN and features my newest body of objects and drawings.
vernissage: sATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2022, 18 - 21 uhr at Spittastr. 2. (lichtenberg) Berlin.
”Primal dreams are the entryway to this haunting, autobiographical body of work.
What we see is what is between the dream and the physical form. What we think about is the space of the black depth of coal and ink. What we hear is copper singing through charred wood.
The event of a transformation into ashes will look like a specimen. It will look like the detached and intimate home movies that keep beats on a wall.”
(alexis knowlton, artist/director galerie HELL)
……
(de)
”der zahn” einzelausstellung wird nächste woche in der GALERIE HELL BERLIN eröffnet und zeigt meine neuesten objekte und zeichnungen.
vernissage: SAMSTAG, 10. DEZEMBER 2022, 18 - 21 uhr in der Spittastr. 2. (lichtenberg) Berlin.
”Ur-Träume sind der Zugang zu diesem eindringlichen, autobiografischen Werk.
Was wir sehen, ist das, was zwischen dem Traum und der physischen Form liegt. Woran wir denken, ist der Raum der schwarzen Tiefe von Kohle und Tinte. Was wir hören, ist das Singen von Kupfer durch verkohltes Holz.
Das Ereignis einer Verwandlung in Asche wird wie ein Spezimen aussehen. Es wird wie die losgelösten und intimen Heimvideos aussehen, die den Beat an der Wand halten.”
(alexis knowlton, Künstlerin/Direktorin galerie HELL)
locus anamnesis | virtual exhibition
The LOCUS ANAMNESIS virtual exhibition is online 29 January - 28 February, 2022.
This newest series of drawings and paintings is a study of stimuli through which our minds experience the world. Complex processes are stripped to their bones, with their meaning broken down in diagrammatic space. Symbols create their own code as they point out roots and causes, mimicking the brain’s own process of sense-making on canvas.
The title - LOCUS ANAMNESIS - references Plato’s theory that simulation and stimulation are the only way for humans to bring back the knowledge we lost when born. We are unlearning in order to learn again; losing in order to recover.